Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig sitea.com. NS
Answer
sitea.com. 4 NS ns6.altamiraweb.com.
sitea.com. 4 NS ns5.altamiraweb.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0